Washington Co., AR - Biographies - Andrew J. Wilson *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** Andrew J. Wilson, a successful farmer and stock raiser of Washington County, Ark., and native of the same, was born in Pulaski March 25, 1851. His father, William Wilson, was born in Jackson County, Ga., in 1807, and was married in that State to Eliza B. McCulloch, also of Georgia, and of English parentage. They came to Arkansas in 1833, and made their home near Little Rock for eighteen years, coming to Washington County in 1855, where he purchased 600 acres of land, and dealt very extensively in stock. December 6, 1886, the father died at the age of seventy-nine years, leaving a wife and a large family of children to mourn his loss. His sons, John and Anthony, were soldiers in the Confederate army, and died during the war. His sons, Albert and Andrew, are intelligent and enterprising young men, and are residing on and managing the home farm. They have 1,040 acres of prairie land, nearly all in pasture, 1,420 acres of bottom timber land, and are very extensively engaged in raising cattle, horses, mules, hogs and sheep. In 1887 they shipped eight car loads of stock and sold at home 265 head of cattle. On their land is a fine artificial pond, one and a half acres in extent, stocked with German carp, which affords them plenty of fish.